| Summary: | Anna Templeton is perhaps best known today for the craft centre named in her honour in downtown St. John’s. Yet this centre—and, in fact, Newfoundland’s modern crafting scene—would not exist as it does today without the woman herself. Anna Templeton was a pioneer of the province’s cottage craft industry. Through her work with the Jubilee Guilds and the Department of Education, Templeton made craftwork accessible and profitable for women across rural Newfoundland. In doing so, she empowered these women to learn rewarding new skills, gain personal confidence and earn their own income in an era when ‘women’s work’ in outports was often restricted to unpaid household labour.
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